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Google Chrome Gets New Tab Grid and Tab Grouping in Update, Easier Device Sharing

Kellen September 19, 2019

Over the next few weeks, you'll notice a couple of improvements to the way Chrome lets you handle multiple tabs, plus sharing a tab from one device to another will be easier than ever. Through a blog post today, Google announced that a new tab grid experience...

Chrome Beta for Android Gets a Dark Mode Flag

Kellen March 22, 2019

Google pushed an update to Chrome Beta last night as version 74.0.3729.25 and a couple of dark mode-related flags were included. If you want all of your apps to be darker, the time has come for you to give Chrome the love. If you head into chrome://flags and...

Chrome Gets a Navigation Gesture You Should Enable Right Away

Kellen March 21, 2019

Diving into chrome://flags can be both exciting and a dance with the devil. You may tweak or enable an in-the-works setting with Chrome that quickly improves your experience or you may break a bunch of sh*t. Today, though, we've got a setting to share that we...

Chrome 71 is Going Further to Block More Bad Ad Experiences

Kellen November 5, 2018

At the beginning of this year, Google added protections to Chrome that helped protect users against abusive experiences. "Abusive experiences" was basically in reference to all of the super obnoxious ads across the web that open new tabs or windows and...

Chrome Turns 10 and Gets a Bunch of New Features

Kellen September 4, 2018

Chrome turned 10 years old today and Google is celebrating the occasion with a huge update and bunch of new features across platforms. Chrome is getting a new look everywhere, major improvements to its password manager, smart answers within the Search bar, and...

If You Miss Chrome Home, Turn on Chrome Duet in Chrome Beta

Kellen August 23, 2018

As Google pushed a feature called Chrome Home from Dev to Beta to stable throughout 2017, I really took to it. At first, the move of the address bar from the top of Chrome to the bottom was an awkward adjustment, but once used to the location, it just made...

You Can Now Browse the Web in VR Thanks to Daydream Support for Chrome

Tim July 30, 2018

Maybe it's because I'm not completely engulfed in VR news these days, but I didn't realize Chrome wasn't already supported by Google's Daydream VR platform. This week, that changes, with Google making the announcement this morning that those with a Daydream...

Chrome 66 Stable Rolling Out, Blocks Auto-Playing Videos and More

Tim April 18, 2018 5

The stable version of Chrome is picking up an update to version 66, specifically 66.0.3359.106. Inside, the only thing Google lists is the ability to find your stored passwords more easily, but thanks to the digging of others through Chromium, as well as...